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  • Official: Education keeps poverty down

    April 24, 2008

    The city was urged to examine the long-term effectiveness of the many programs designed to help inner-city youth at the annual breakfast conference Thursday of the Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition. Linda Gibbs, New York City's deputy mayor for health and human services, told the gathering of about 375 at the Bridgeport Holiday Inn that, in the long term, the most important thing that government can do to erase poverty is to educate its children.

  • Health Care Crisis Hits Suburbs

    March 31, 2008

    Gripping stories of unmet health needs and financial disaster caused by health care costs caught the attention of state legislators at Sunday’s Health Care Forum in Westport, “Is there a Health Care Crisis in the Suburbs?” All seven state legislators from the four towns of Easton, Fairfield, Westport and Weston were invited. The five who came - Senator John McKinney and Representatives Thomas Drew, Kim Fawcett, Joe Mioli, and John Stripp – and another fifty audience members listened carefully... Read more

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 The Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition (BCAC) is a coalition of organizations, parents, and other concerned individuals committed to improving the well-being of Bridgeport's children. 

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Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition
2470 Fairfield Avenue
Bridgeport, CT 06605 (directions)

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